Three NOVARS composers featured at the new CD release from Musica Viva / Miso Music: Manuella Blackburn, George Dennis and Diana Simpson

David Berezan featured composer at the Electronic Music Night of the DCMF

David Berezan has been invited as the main composer for the Electronic Music Night of the DCMF (Daegu International Contemporary Music Festival), one of the most active and renowned festivals in South Korea , in June 2010. This follows on from the recent performance of three of his works
at the Electroacoustic Music Festival in Wroclaw, Poland in May 2009, the publication of his graphic scores in the just released Notations21(Mark Batty Publishers, NewYork), and publication of a body of his compositional work on his first DVD audiodisc La Face Cachée (empreintesDIGITALes, Montreal).

MANTIS in Motion- The Greenroom, Manchester.

7.30pm - 11.00pm. Free
11th June 2010.
Lineup -
Mark Pilkington (UK) - Laptop A/V set.
Mark Pilkington is a performer and composer of electronic and electroacoustic music. Interested in fusing together audio/visual structures that can be manipulated from a score or improvised in real-time thus presenting performances that question traditional concepts of art, music and technology.
He works in the areas of screened works, recordings, installation and live performance. Currently a PhD candidate at the University of Manchester.
www.thought-universe.co.uk

Richard Scott (UK) - will been playing with analogue synthesizers. Richard lives in Berlin and Manchester. He is currently an Artistic Resident at STEIM, Amsterdam focussing on infra-red and movement based performance technologies.

Tonight he will be forsaking the computer and his infra red controllers for some down to earth knob wiggling."

Andrew Garbett (UK) - Electronic Study (Fixed Media – Stereo – 4’37”)

The piece is in 3 sections with short ‘transitional’ moments between them which segue one to another forming a continuous whole lasting 4 minutes 37 seconds. The first section is concerned with multiple layers of sound all moving at different speeds around the space, while the second and third sections are more static. The second section is primarily concerned with the placement of individual events in space. In the final section many of the sounds have been fragmented, so they take on quite different characteristics. All the sounds were recorded using everyday objects and then manipulated using the computer programme ‘ProTools’.

Andrew is currently at the end of his first year at the University of Manchester, where he is engaged in research for a PhD in Electroacoustic Music.

Visit the website: www.andrewgarbett.com

Simon Whetham (UK) - during the interval music will be played by Bristol sound artist Simon Whetham

Robert Benthall (UK) - solo Double bass improvisation plus diffusion of acousmatic work 'Hinges between Days'.


MANTIS in Motion is based at NOVARS, the University of Manchester.
http://www.novars.org/

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Mark Pilkington
+44(0)161-283-3582
+44(0)7896 366812
www.thought-universe.co.uk